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UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB BARKER, OF COLUMBIA, AND LUTHER L. ERIERSON, 0F MOUNT PLEASANT,TENNESSEE.

PACKING AND REFRIGERATING VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,931, dated July 8,1890.

Application filed January 30, 1890. Serial No. 338,634. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AOOB BARKER and LUTHER L. FRIERsoN, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Columbia and Mount Pleasant,respectively, in the county of Maury and State of Tennessee, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Packing and RefrigcratingVessels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the packing-refrigerator for which LettersPatent No. 110,481 were issued September 3, 1889, to Jacob Barker, andto the improvements thereon described and shown in an application forLetters Patent filed by the said Jacob Barker October 5, 1889, SerialNo. 326,103.

The objects of the present invention are to improve the priorstructures; to provide novel means whereby all parts within the envelopeor outer casing can be readily removed to facilitate cleaning; toprovide a novel antiseptic packingjacket detachable, buckled about thecan or containing-vessel; to provide novel means for holding thepackingjacket away from the can or containing-vessel and at the sametime form between the two an annular series of vertical parallelwater-chann els for conducting the ice-water from the ice-chamber downto the base of the structure, and to provide a'novel support for thebottom of the can or containing-vessel whereby the efficiency of therefrigerator is materially increased.

To accomplish all these objects the invention involves the features ofconstruction and the combination or arrangement of parts hereinafterdescribed and specifically set forth in the claims, reference being madeto the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional sideelevation of the refrigerator. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View ofthe envelope and packing-jacket, showing the can or containing-vessel inside elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line0: ac, Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is detail-perspective view looking at the insideof the packing-jacket. Fig. 5 isa top plan view of the antisepticpacking-disk for supporting the can or containing-vessel. Fig. 6 is aView similar to Fig. 3, showing a modification of the means for formingthe vertical water-channels. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective View showinganother means for forming the vertical water-channels. Fig. 8 is adetail perspective view showing a modified construction of thepacking-jacket for use in connection with the device shown in Fig. 7.

In order to enablethose skilled in the art to make and use our inventionwe will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings,wherein- The numeral 1 indicates the milk-can or other containing-vesselhaving an inclined breast 2, from which rises a neck 3, provided with asuitable cover 4. This vessel may be of any size and is preferably madeto contain a considerable quantity of whatever material is placedtherein.

Surrounding the can 1 is an antiseptic packing-jacket 5, composed of asheet of felt or rubber, to which is applied a preparation of cork orother similar material of an antiseptic character. This jacket is formedof a single strip or sheet of such length and width as to wholly incloseand surround the can, upon which it is fastened by means of straps 7 andbuckles 8, applied to its contiguous vertical ends. The can 1 rests uponan antiseptic disk 8 of material similar to that composing the jacket 5,and having such diameter that it affords support to packing-j aoket, thelower edge of which rests upon the outer portion of the disk. Upon theinner face of the jacket 5 are strips or slats 9, of any suitable shapeand formed of any suitable material--such as wood or metal-andprojecting from the surfaces on which they are mounted. The slats uponthe jacket are arranged to stand vertically when the jacket is upon thecan.

Surrounding the can and inclosing the packing-jacket is an exteriorenvelope or casing 10, formed of wood or other material suitable for thepurpose. In form it resemblesabarrel having a removable lid 12, providedwith suitable fastenings. The antiseptic disk 8 is placed upon anelevated platform 8*, having supporting-legs that stand on the bottomwall of the envelope, whereby a water space or chamber is created at thebase of the structure. The envelope surrounds the jacket too eration.

Resting upon the top of thecan or vessel 1, at or near its outer edge,is an annular inclined plate 15, the outer edge of which is providedwith suitable fasteningssuch as hooks 16-which detachably engage eyes 17in a flange or collar 18, mounted on the inner face of the envelopesomewhat above the packing-jacket; but in place of the flange or collar18 I may use hangers 19. The circular or annular plate not only alfordsa support for the ice, but it guides the water produced by the meltingof the ice down to the canbreast, whence it flows between the latter andthe wired lower edge of the annular-plate,-

passes over the outer surface of the can, and flows down through thevertical water-channels 9, formed by the vertical strips 9, between theexternal surface of the can or contaming-vessel and the internal surfaceof the packing-jacket. The ice-water by superficial contact with the canserves to cool the same. The packing-disk 8 is also provided withparallel strips 9 on its upper side, upon which the bottom wall of thecan rests, and the disk is provided with drip-holes 20 in such mannerthat the ice-water leaving the lower ends of the vertical water-channels9 flows into the spaces between the can-bottom and the disk and throughthe drip-holes 20 in the latter to the water-chamber below the elevatedplatform 8 from whence it may be discharged, as occasion demands,through the escape-orifices 13.

The vertical strips 9, in addition to formin g the annular series ofvertical water-channels 9 serve to stiffen and support thepacking-jacket; but we do not confine ourselves to the independentwater-channels formed by the separated vertical strips, for suchchannels can be otherwise formed. For instance, the

a vertical independent water-channels may be formed by a sheet of metalor other sufficiently stiff material corrugated and attached to thepacking-jacket, as at 21, Fig. 6, so that the corrugations form separatevertical channels 9 and serve to hold the packing-jacket at a distancefrom the can or containing-vessel. If the corrugated sheet 21, Fig. 6,be employed, as described, it may be perforated, as at 22. The verticalwater channels can also be formed by aseries of separated verticalstrips 23, secured to horizontal parallel straps 24, adapted to bebuckled around the can or containingvessel, so that the strips 23 restin contact therewith. If this construction be -;employed to provide thevertical water-channels, the antiseptic packing-jacket is buckled aroundthe said strips 23, and at itsupper edge the jacket may have hooks, asat 25, Fig. 8, to hook into engagement with the uppermost horizontalstrap 24 for the purpose of preventing the jacket from slipping down orcollapsing when saturated with water.

The refrigerator described is useful for preserving and shipping milk,poultry, and other food products; and it is simple and economical andcan be conveniently cleaned, since all the parts may be readily removedand replaced.

WVe do not herein claim the annular plate detachably secured to supportson the envelope and forming, in connection with the canbreast, anannular trough, as such constitutes the subject-matter of theapplication for Letters Patent hereinbefore alluded to.

, \Ve do not Wish to be understood as confining ourselves to thepacking-jacket when antiseptic properties are imparted thereto, for thispacking-jacket may be composed of a flexible sheet of felt or otherfibrous material without antiseptic preparation.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is 1. Apacking-refrigerator consisting of an envelope, a detachable canarranged therein, a packing-jacket detachably secured around the can, anice-chamber above the can, a water-chamber below the can, and an annularseries of separated unobstructed vertical water-channels formed betweenthe can and the packing-jacket for conducting the ice-water downward incontact with the can to the water-chamber, substantially as described.

2. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an external envelope, aninterior can, a vertically-divided packing-jacket between the casing andvessel, and a disk beneath the can and between it and the bottom of theenvelope, said jacket and disk being formed of an antiseptic materialand provided with strips or slats upon the surfaces adjacent to the can,substantially as described.

3. A packing-refrigerator consisting of a can or vessel, apacking-jacket surrounding the same and composed of a sheet of fabrichaving a coating of antiseptic material and provided upon its inner facewith vertical slats or strips of suitable material, a disk of similarconstruction arranged beneath the can and its jacket, and an outerenvelope inclosing the jacket and having a lid, substantially asdescribed.

4. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an inner containing-can, asurrounding vertically-divided packing-jacket formed of a sheet ofantiseptic material fastened upon the can at its adjacent edges bystraps and buckles, and provided upon its inner face with verticalstrips or slats, an outer envelope, and a disk of antiseptic materialhaving slats crossing its upper surface and interposed vbetween theperforated bottom of the outer envelope 25 detachably mounted on thecan-breast within 1 and the can and jacket, substantially as described.

5. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an envelope, a containerarranged therein, and having an inclined breast, a vertically-dividedpacking-jacket surrounding the can, an annular series of verticalwater-channels between the container and the jacket, a diskintel-posedbetween the bottom of the envelope, the can, and the packing-jacket,-andan annular plate having its lower edge resting upon the can-breast,extending upward and outward and detachably connected to internalsupports on the envelope, substantially as described.

6. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an external envelope, a canarranged therein and having an inclined, breast, a detachablepackingjacket surrounding the can and composed of an antiseptic materialprovided with vertical strips or slats, a disk of similar con structionbetween the bottoms of the can and easing, the latter being providedwith one or more escape-openings, and an annular plate an ice-chamber inthe upper part of the en velope, substantially as described.

7. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an envelope, a removableantiseptic packingdisk in the lower portion thereof, a can supported bythe disk and having an inclined breast, a removable vertically-dividedpackin g-j acket surrounding the can and having its vertical edgesdetachably connected together, an annular series of verticalunobstructed water-channels formed between the can and the dividedjacket, and a removable annular inclined plate having its outer edgedetachably connected to internal supports on the envelope and forming incombination with the breast an annular trough, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof We have affixed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JACOB BARKER. LUTHER L. FRIERSON.

Witnesses:

ISAAC SAFFANANS, G. M. ENGLE.

